Volunteer

We need more volunteers who can help us in our local chapter. Below we have listed the tasks we need assistance for.

It's important to stress it is mandatory to sign membership with AFS to become a volunteer. As volunteers you'll be covered by AFS insurance in case of emergency.

If you have any questions, please contact local president of AFS Aalborg at: aalborg.afs@gmail.com.

Host Coordinator

As our host coordinator has looked for new opportunities else where, we're looking for one or two new host coordinators for AFS Aalborg. The task can be rather challenging and we hope to be able to split it between to people.

Your tasks:

The host coordinators tasks are to find and approve new host families for our exchange students.

The host coordinator also has responsibility to plan and execute events for our exchange students and host families during their stay. This will be done in collaboration with the rest of the board.

As host coordinator you'll also become member of the board of AFS Aalborg, and participate in monthly board meetings.

Requirements:

It is mandatory to become member of AFS.

It will be an advantage if you have tried to be host family yourself, parent of a teenager or other experiences in working with teenagers, but not mandatory.

Mature age is prioritized.

It will also be an advantage if you have access to a car, as interviews happens in the families home's, many in rural areas with little to none public transport available. Transport expenses with interviews are refunded.

You must be able to write and speak Danish and English. If you speak or write other languages, too, it'll be a bonus.

You will:

Recieve training for the task, and have support from our national organization consulent and national host coordinator.
Become a part of a local international fellowship and meet a lot of new people.
Have opportunity to participate in local, national and international events.

Contact Person

As Contact Person it is your duty at least once a month to contact the assigned exchange student to follow up on how he/she is thriving and to do intercultral reflections.

The contact can be done either by meeting up, phone calls, video call, text messages (SMS, Messenger, Snapchat, What's App etc.)

For the chat on intercultral reflections you will receive an email by the beginning of the month with layout for this conversation.

After the chat you are to fill out an online formular of 5 little questions.

Requirements:

You speak/wirte english pretty much fluently.
You are engaged to be in contact with the youngsters.
It's a benefit if you've been exchange student yourself, or tried living abroad, but not mandatory.

Media & Marketing Team

Are you interested in creating content for social media's? Perhaps you will help us creating content for our Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest and Youtube accounts.

This task will be done in close contact with our Host Coordinator, Sending Coordinator, 18+ Coordinator and local president of AFS Aalborg.

The busiest time for Media & Marketing Team is March-July.

We're using Canve Pro for creating content, and we use Workplace for coordinating the task. We have recently applied for PowerDirector 2024 Ultimate for video editing.

Demands:

You have some experience creating content for social media's.
You are creative and skilled in writing text that cathes the audience.
Experience with Canva is a benefit, but not a demand.
You are creative in setting up fair stands that capture the audience.

This task will sometimes require personal attendance on specific locations, but must can be done from home or by video meetings.

AFS Helper

AFS Helper are volunteers loosely engaged. When we need assistance we will reach out and request assistance, and each member can reply whether they can help out or not.

The tasks can be very different: baking, cooking, practical work, destribution of flyers etc.

The tasks can take place all over in the area we cover, and it will be an advantage if you are able to do your own transportation.

Emergency Families

Sometimes it happens an exchange student has been placed with the wrong family. In these cases we can be in need of replace the exchange student to a different family, but it will often cause a short layover. In these cases we wish to have a number of emergency families, who can receive the exchange student temporarily with a short notice, while we try to find a new permanent host family.

Preferably we desire at least one emergency family in each of the municipalities we cover, making it possible for the exchange student to maintain school during the temporarily replacement.

It can be difficult to say exactly how long a temporarily replacement with the emergency family lasts; in some cases just a couple of days, in others it might take a couple of weeks.

Demands:

To be approved emergency family you will have to do same application process like host families in general.
You are willing to cover the costs of food and housing for the exchange student.

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